volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

Miriam Ruiz miriam at debian.org
Tue Dec 2 20:51:04 UTC 2008


2008/12/2 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org>:
> [ M-F-T set to -devel ]
>
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:30:54PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>> We should somehow tag those conflictive licenses with debtags, so that
>> users can filter out the ones they don't wont easily. I don't object
>
> Except that debtags are right now for binary packages, whereas
> copyright is for source packages.
>
> Moreover, copyright is something already coded (and correctly "fixed")
> in debian/copyright.
>
> The solution to your problem already exists (actually, it has been
> *designed* for that): http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
> , it "just" needs someone with the energy of finalizing the proposal
> (most likely via a DEP), so that is stops being an ever changing wiki
> page.

Well, not exactly, you cannot easily see the copyright file before
installing the package, can you?

Greetings,
Miry



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